There’s been a lot of random quotes on the internet, stuck beside Morgan Freeman’s picture. Most of these quotes he never said and it ended up enraging the internet.
If you landed on this page, then I’m sure you love Morgan Freeman‘s work, and his voice whenever he says something inspiring in films.
This is our small collection of Morgan Freeman quotes that he actually said:
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23 Morgan Freeman Quotes
1. “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” – Morgan Freeman
2. “And some places you been before are so great that you don’t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.” – Morgan Freeman
3. “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” – Morgan Freeman
4. “People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” – Morgan Freeman
5. “If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.” – Morgan Freeman
6. “I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.” – Morgan Freeman
7. “The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.” – Morgan Freeman
8. “I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.” – Morgan Freeman
9. “I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.” – Morgan Freeman
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10. “I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.” – Morgan Freeman
11. “I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.” – Morgan Freeman
12. “As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.” – Morgan Freeman
13. “Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.” – Morgan Freeman
14. “I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.” – Morgan Freeman
15. “Most of the time it’s the role. Sometimes it’s the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It’s the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I’m saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.” – Morgan Freeman
16. “Not only do I have to live right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” – Morgan Freeman
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17. “We humans are more concerned with having than with being.” – Morgan Freeman
18. “And some places you been before are so great that you don’t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.” – Morgan Freeman
19. “I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.” – Morgan Freeman
20. “I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing – all of us – everybody in the business – that’s all you ask anyone – you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it.” – Morgan Freeman
21. “Life doesn’t offer you promises whatsoever so it’s very easy to become, ‘Whatever happened to…?’ It’s great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.” – Morgan Freeman
22. “When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.” – Morgan Freeman
23. “Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.” -Morgan Freeman
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